How any "conservative" could consider making John McCain the Republican candidate for president of the United States is beyond me.
I can understand how celebrity or name recognition gives some few a feeling that voting for someone who appears tough or cowboy like ala McCain or George W. Bush makes that candidate what is best for America. Both men talk cowboy tough but as the old rancher said years ago: Some cowboys are “all hat and belt buckle and no horse.“
Living in the West or chopping wood and brush, straight talk that is not backed up by the record does not make a politician Madison or even Harry Truman. Voters who fall for image are living with a fantasy rather than reality.
It is apparent far too many voters do so on image, name recognition or because they impose their own attitudes, ideals, hopes and dreams on a candidate. What they are doing is giving the rest of us a false choice. Is there no understanding among the electorate that people usually revert to type once they have been elected to office?
The record shows John McCain exhibits no real epiphany or change of heart on everything from tax cuts, immigration, to bad trade deals. He has voted or sponsored some of the worst Democratic initiatives, while trashing conservatives in a self-serving patronizing, way.
John McCain has denigrated anyone who does not swallow the leftist cant on the reasons for global warming, if there is in fact global warming. He seems to endorse the leftist notion that global warming can be "cured" by spending money or by returning to bicycles and candles living the way Al Gore would have the rest of us live while the elite live like royalty.
If America wants someone who believes in open borders, bad trade deals, misuse of the U.S. military as a commodity in service to some elite agenda, unthinking acceptance of politicized science, if they prefer a president who does not think taxes and fees at the present level are not obscene, who voted or sponsored some of the worst legislation ever, while soaking up the adulation of the dimwits in the unthinking end of the liberal media, then John McCain is their man.
In a recent column, writer Michelle Malkin reminds us what John McCain really thinks of most conservatives: “Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party (F**k you! and Chickensh*t were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions)." Not all of us have forgotten that he voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under his plan. Not all of us have forgotten the underhanded, debate-sabotaging manner in which McCain/Kennedy/Lindsey Graham/Harry Reid conspired to ram their package down voters' throats.
His admission of the shamnesty failure is grudging and bitter. While he now tells conservative voters what they want to hear about the need to build the southern border fence, he takes a contemptuous tone toward physical barriers when talking to businessmen. "By the way, I think the fence is least effective," he told executives in Milwaukee, according to a recent Vanity Fair profile. [Prisoner of Conscience, February 2007]"But I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it." Straight talk? Try hate talk.
We the people, Democrat or Republican, are given false choices in the candidacies of John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
We are ill served by a majority of those who make careers in the U.S. Senate or in government, as they move from government to business and back again. They continue to sellout the U.S. future in order to make themselves rich while retaining connections and power.
They hide behind economic ideology or the notion that commerce and finance equals world peace, bigger government replaces family, church and community, and transferring power to unaccountable bureaucrats or to the already powerful is the ‘right’ thing to do.
Whether the Clintons, McCain, Bush family, et al, all of them amassed power to themselves and to set in stone the marriage of government/corporate interests. Hillary takes money from foreign citizens or commercial interests including India and China, Goldman-Sachs executives, Silicon Valley and Wall Street: Both Clintons have done so for years.
Recently, Bill Clinton gave up a million dollar job “consulting” for some Middle East potentate — how high-minded of him. All of it is indicative of the disheartening fact those who leave government, Democrat or Republican, invariably gravitate toward shilling for commercial interests or foreign governments. Few of their kind join the U.S. military, the Peace Corps, open up a machine shop in Milwaukee or work in a nursing home: Occupations which would actually be of some value and service to this nation.
All of them have funded failure wasting money on earmarks or living large on taxpayer money.
They allowed millions from the Third World, not just Mexico, to depress wages, balkanize us as they fail to insist on the unity provided by a common language. Their irresponsibility added to the social cost to the states in everything from education to incarceration. These ‘leaders’ failed to insist or respect American sovereignty, history, tradition and citizenship.
They have stood by as growing animosity between Hispanics and American blacks rises and the Clinton style preference for identity group politics is coming home to roost. Anyone who is aware observe Hillary s primarily counting on women and Hispanics and celebrity to propel her to the White House.
In South Carolina, the Clinton’s true colors were on display and it wasn’t pretty. The Clinton faction turned the primary elections into a contest that was clouded by race. If Hillary wins the nomination and Obama is not on the ticket, sooner or later, African-Americans will begin to realize they have been betrayed — again. Cynicism and betrayal, however, is not reserved for Democrats like the Clintons.
In Michigan, McCain’s economic ideology and cavalier attitude towards ordinary American working class was apparent. He offered high unemployment Michiganders another false choice: "When you study history, every time we've adopted protectionism, we've paid a very heavy price."
It is a false choice McCain provided. Leaders like McCain, George HW and George W. Bush andD the Clintons encouraged unhealthy crushing trade deficits, personal and public debt, insane financial practices, meanwhile gutting crucial industry: Such industries would be those vital in future wars say with China or Russia.
Guys like McCain have tunnel vision, actually, no vision at all. No one is suggesting we never import another item but rather that someone in D.C. look out for essential American producers and industries rather than handing over our economic future in the name of ideology or selfishness. They subsidize huge agribusiness and turn a blind eye to hard industries gutted or bought out or sent to China, Europe, or wherever.
Unbalanced U.S. economic policy allowed the Middle Class and working class to bear the burden of keeping inflation in check through unrestricted immigration and lying about inflation. In addition, they never told America what kind of jobs were replacing those lost to globalization. Most of the new jobs, at least for those who don’t flip houses or work at Goldman-Sachs, are in much lower paying service sector.
Out of the number created in the last eight years, half went to recent immigrants working for few benefits at depressed wages. Add government waste at all levels, plus creation of yet more top-heavy government and undue influence of special interests and this nation is on a slippery slope.
McCain or Clinton are false choices for the American people this election cycle. If we have no real choice who actually put American interests first — then we will continue to slip into becoming Brazil or some "Blade Runner" society the founders would not recognize.
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